State v. Smith

BARCOS, J.. The validity of the trial court’s judgment in this case depends entirely upon whether the act passed by the Second. Called Session of the Forty-Second Legislature in September, 1931 (chapter 2 [Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. arts. 165a-165m]), known as the law “regulating cotton cultivation,” is constitutional. Section 1 of said act (Vernon’s Ann. Civ. St. art. 165a) declares that the soil is one of the most valuable resources of the state; that the growing of cotton is an industry of first importance; that the preservation and restoration of the soil is essential to the welfare of the…